Billy Bunter
by Frank Richards
Radio Shows
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Billy Bunter : Radio shows Radio broadcasts concerning Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School, known as the Fat Owl of the Remove, a character created by Frank Richards, originally featured in the British boys periodical The Magnet which was published weekly between 1908 and 1940. Good Old Greyfriars - 1981-09-22 - 40th Anniversary documentary A 40 minute radio feature marking the 40th anniversary of the publication of the final issue of The Magnet , which came to an end because of wartime paper shortages during World War Two. The broadcast explores the origins and the popularity of the character Billy Bunter, one of the most famous figures in British literature, who in the 1950s had his own weekly television series in England, and also continued to appear in new stories in print, in a series of novels published between 1947 and 1965, when Frank Richards finally passed away, aged 80. Saturday Night Theatre - 1986-12-13 - Billy Bunter's Christmas Party A 90 minute radio play, adapting the Tankerton Hall christmas series, from a serial which was originally published in The Magnet in weekly installments during the 1930s. Saturday-Night Theatre Sat 13th Dec 1986, 19:00 on Radio 4 FM Billy Bunter's Christmas Party by Frank Richards A holiday with Bunter's family? The Famous Five can think of nothing worse. But the fat owl's outflanked them once again and they're booked for Christmas at Tankerton Hall where a malevolent ghost is the least of their concerns. Dramatised by Rob Gittins. Directed by Adrian Mourby. BBC Wales. Stereo William George Bunter: Hugh Thomas Bessie Bunter: Erica Eirian Bob Cherry: David Parfttt Harry Wharton: Simon Hewitt Quelch/Brown: Philip Bond Uncle Carter: Ivor Roberts Squiff: Lee Galpin Nugent: Paul Wilce Bull/Smith: Spencer Banks Hurree Singh: Sam Dastor Hubert/Mauly: Cornelius Garrett Whatever Happened To - s01e04 - Horace Henry Samuel Quelch A spoof radio documentary from the 1990s, exploring the post-1965 career of Billy Bunter's form-master at Greyfriars, Henry Samuel Quelch (who at one time had been known as Horace Quelch), in the years after Bunter left school. A completely fictitious and intentionally humorous account, it also looks into what might have been the post-Greyfriars careers of Bunter himself (who seems to have become Lord Bunter of Hove ), and of various of his classmates at Greyfriars including Harry Wharton, Johnny Bull and the other members of the Famous Five. One point of interest is that Gerald Campion appears here as Lord Bunter of Hove, making his final public appearance in the role. Campion had become famous playing Bunter during the 1950s, in the long running television series and in a number of West End stage plays.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.